143: [JJ Comerford] A Toxic Environment // Part 1
What Came Next
Broken Cycle Media
4.4 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
JJ Comerford is an author, professional, former servicemember, and survivor from Australia. In these two episodes, J.J. rawly shares about the physical and sexual abuse he experienced as a student in the private Catholic school system in the 1970’s. After decades of suffering in silence, J.J. was eventually encouraged to share about his abuse at-large. Since he began his mission of awareness, his media efforts and book have offered much solace to his supporters. The Broken Cycle Media team is deeply honored that J.J. was willing to so rawly share his story, strength, and resilience with our audience.
Sources:
“Abused schoolboy John Comerford took gun to school to kill his rapist teacher.” The Daily Telegraph, 16 July 2017, www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/john-comerford-was-raped-at-11-he-returned-to-the-school-at-18-with-a-loaded-shotgun-to-kill-his-rapist-but-he-was-told-he-was-already-dead/news-story/5d61f68d4bbc7d4c17d25c7d118be1cb
Resources:
JJ’s Website: https://jjcomerford.com/
JJ's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_jjcomerford_/
JJ's Books: https://jjcomerford.com/books
For a list of additional resources and related non-profit organizations, please visit http://www.somethingwaswrong.com/resources
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you to Quince for sponsoring this episode. |
| 0:03.4 | What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:08.2 | Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering, such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder. |
| 0:17.4 | I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor. |
| 0:20.8 | If you're in need of support, please visit |
| 0:22.8 | something was wrong.com forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help. |
| 0:30.0 | Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the |
| 0:35.4 | views of myself or broken cycle media. |
| 0:38.7 | Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. |
| 0:42.6 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:44.5 | Thank you so much for listening. Jay J.J. Comerford is an author, professional, former service member, and survivor from Australia. |
| 1:17.3 | In these two episodes, J.J. Rawley shares about the physical and sexual abuse he experienced as a student in the private Catholic school system in the 1970s. |
| 1:28.0 | After decades of suffering in silence, JJ was eventually encouraged to share about his abuse |
| 1:34.0 | at large. |
| 1:35.3 | Since he began his mission of awareness, his media efforts and book have offered much |
| 1:40.2 | solace to his supporters. |
| 1:42.3 | The Broken Cycle Media team is deeply honored that JJ was willing to so openly share his |
| 1:47.9 | story, strength, and resilience with our audience. |
| 1:58.9 | My name's John Comer or JJ Cummuffin. |
| 2:02.6 | I'm currently in Sydney, Australia. |
| 2:05.6 | I was born here. |
| 2:07.6 | I live in a place called Coogee Beach where there's probably two minutes from where my grandparents lived and my mum grew up. |
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